Attaching water-pipes to buildings



UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIoE.

WILLIAM AUSTIN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

ATTAGHING- WATER-PIPES TO BUILDINGS.

Specication of Letters Patent No. 28,954, dated July 3, 1860.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, IVILLIAM AUSTIN, of the city of Philadelphia and State of Penn- Sylvania., have invented anew and Improved Method of Att-aching Tater-Pipes to Buildings; and I do h-ereby declare the following to be a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The nature of my invent-ion consists in an improved manner of attaching water pipes to the walls of buildings, it being so contrived as to permit the removal of any one section or joint, without either disturbing the remainder or in any way disturbing or injuring the wall. IVith the ordinary mode of attachment this is impossible and the repairing of any leaking joints connected with even more difficulty than the putting up of new pipe.

To enable others skilled in t-he art to make and use my invention I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation.

(,)n reference to the drawing which forms a part of this specification and in which the same letters of reference allude to similar parts throughout the several views: Figure l is an elevation of 4 joints of water pipe, showing my improved method of attachmenti. Figs. 2 and 3 are enlarged views of the improved parts, and Figs. 4 and 5 are views of a modification of the same.

A, A are four joints of waterpipe, (Fig. 1,) being so united that the lower end of one shall fit inside of the upper end of the neXt lower joint. Into the wall are driven at proper intervals the bolts B, B, which are so shaped as to embrace nearly half the diameter of the pipe, and provided with holes for the reception of locking pins I), b, on the lower end of joints A, A. On reference to Figs. 2 and 3 this arrangement will be fully understood and from the same views it will also be seen that any joint may be easily removed by iirst raising it high enough to disengage its dowel pin Z) from A and by doing this raising the lower end of the joint above the top of the next lower one, thus permitting its being drawn sufliciently to one side to allow its final downward removal from the joint above.

Figs. 4 and 5 represent a modifica-tion of the above described manner of securing the joints to the bolts B, B, the latter being in this case provided with a projection c on its upper side, which, following the circle ofthe pipe, is overlapped by the piece al, thus forming a strong and simple method of attachment.

It will be easily understood, that still further modilications of the above described locking arrangements may be substituted and I therefore desire it to be understood, that I do not intend to confine myself to the described construction of those parts in every minutia; but

What I do claim and desire to secure by Letters Iatent is:

The herein described method of attaching water pipes to buildings, whereby any one joint may be removed or replaced without either injuring the wall or disturbing the remainder of the joints, the whole being constructed and operating substantially as set forth.

WM. AUSTIN. Witnesses:

THEoDoRE BERGNER, ALEXR. MARTIN. 

